Two nice climbs take you to the top, before a tranquil stretch carries you back to the verdant countryside that surrounds the hotel.

The Basilica of Superga is one of the Torinese Baroque masterpieces, begun in 1731 by the hand of Filippo Juvarra, a member of the Savoia family. Superga is also a legendary place for sports and where one of the oldest races in the world took place: the Milano-Torino was first contested in 1876 by 8 trailblazers, racing on the most basic velocipede – the early bicycle.

It is also well known for one of the worst tragic events in Italian sport – the air disaster of the Grande Torino that crashed on May 4, 1949 in a terrible fog.